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‘Eye Cells’ Hone in on Eye Contact, Create Special Connections with Others
Researchers may have pinpointed neurons responsible for that “special connection” feeling associated with first making eye contact
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161 Years Ago Today Ahab First Battled the White Whale, and Critics Hated It
Today marks the 161st anniversary of Moby Dick, the epic seafaring tale by Herman Melville, and Google is celebrating with its own Doodle
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Teenage Brains Are Like Soft, Impressionable Play-Doh
There’s a softer side to adolescent minds: they’re vulnerable, dynamic and highly responsive to positive feedback
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This Feeder Doubles as a Photo Booth for Birds
A bird feeder with a built-in camera housing could economize wildlife photography
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Either Curiosity Is Shedding Or Mars Is Covered in Weird Shiny Particles
After an unknown object turned out to be nothing but plastic, scientists were surprised to find more shiny things buried in the dirt
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If You’re Trapped With Duct Tape Over Your Mouth, Here’s How to Get It Off
A YouTube video shows that actually you can totally get the tape off your mouth without using your hands
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Never-Before-Seen Photos Taken 50 Years Ago During Preparations for Cuba Invasion
During the dark days of October 1962, Marines trained on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques to train for an amphibious assault on Cuba
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Feel Like You’re Flying at Warp Speed: Watch This Video of Stacked-Up Space Photos
A unique time-lapse technique turns familiar views into psychedelic art
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Inside Google’s Top Secret Data Centers
It’s the physical network of thousands of fiber miles and servers that create the multibillion-dollar infrastructure that makes Google Google
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A newly discovered planet circling Alpha Centauri is only four light years away and could point the way to habitable planets nearby
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What Makes Temple Grandin’s Brain Special?
Temple Grandin, perhaps the world’s most famous person with autism, allowed scientists to peak into her exceptional brain for the first time in order to better understand the minds of savants
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City Birds Are Evolving To Be More Flexible and Assertive Than Their Country Cousins
Animals are adapting to life in the big city
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Picasso, Matisse and Monet Paintings Stolen From Dutch Museum
Seven paintings from some of Western art’s greatest masters went missing from a the Kunsthal Museum in Holland this morning
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To Increase Salmon Populations, Company Dumped 110 Tons of Iron Into the Pacific Ocean
Adding iron to the ocean can make life bloom, but scientists are uneasy about the potential unknown consequences
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Turning Iron Into Platinum: Easier—And More Useful—Than Turning Lead Into Gold
Chemical trickery causes iron to act like platinum
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Today We Celebrate a Woman Who Saw the Future of Computers
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day celebrating the life of Lady Lovelace, a seventeenth century countess who published a paper that might be the first computer program ever devised
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Every Place in North Dakota Captured in 9,308 Photographs
In a series of 9,308 photographs Andrew Filer documented every place in North Dakota. Literally
Should All Students Be Forced to Learn Computer Science?
Kids these days are computer wizzes, but they don’t actually know how computers work.
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Yesterday’s Google Doodle Celebrates Little Nemo, Takes You Back to Childhood Fantasy Land
Yesterday’s Google Doodle celebrated the 107th anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic strip by Winsor McCay that hit the presses for nine years
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To Avoid Poison Ivy Rashes, Make the Plant’s Sap Glow
What happens when a geologist who’s immune to the poison ivy, marries a chemist who’s allergic?
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